Alan remembered when he'd been a little more like that himself. No, he'd never been the Sheriff or Guy or John, never been kidnapping or raping women, but... hadn't he also thought of women as property, and that it was the natural order? He had been - and still was - a product of the culture that made him, and sometimes there were unkind things to be said about that culture.
But in this day and age, there was no excuse. Especially for humans, who could form and forge their own paths. Guy of Gisborne was a piece of shit because he was born to be an irredeemable piece of shit, no matter what Marian had said about how she'd thought she could 'fix him'. (He wondered - but would never ask - if she still felt that way about their enemies after what had happened to her with the Sheriff.) Guy couldn't be fixed, but humans... dammit, they should be fixable.
"At least guys like that monster aren't the norm anymore," Alan said. "Though that's not exactly a comfort for Clio. But I have to eventually hope they'll all die out like the Neanderthals they are and leave us with something more egalitarian."